old guy wrote:

I went to a local dealer and they sell forest river among other TT's. I ask the mechanics about some of the TT's sold on the lot and they told me what problems they have with the units when serviced. one thing that stood out in my mind was the one guy who was working on a forest river 5th wheel and he said he almost put his arm through the wall of the bath room. he said they used a thin sheet of veneer to make the wall and stapled it on on end to one wall and using no other support wrapped it around to make a wall and stapled it to the door frame. very flimsy he said. and he went on to tell me some other shoddy workmanship they had to fix. He told me to stay away from forest river. Now to let you know, my trade in is a forest river and it is a fine TT once I got all the bugs worked out of it. my biggest grip was they put three different sized tires on it when I got it. I was blowing tires in the drive way. I would say what ever you buy go over it with a fine toothed comb and remember this, building a TT or a 5er or a MH is not rocket science, so there will be shortfalls in all of them.

Wills250psd wrote:

heartland bought fleetwood or something like that but I have friend that bought a high end fleetwood 5er in 04 it stayed in the shop until warranty ran out. It was a pos then and is a pos now. they were treated so poorly that it will stop me from buying a heartland or previous fleetwood of any kind. JMO.